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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 850 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to require updates |
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| 6 | 6 | | to the northern border threat analysis and northern border strategy, |
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| 7 | 7 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH5, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. H |
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| 11 | 11 | | ASSAN(for herself, Mr. CRAMER, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, and Ms. COLLINS) |
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| 12 | 12 | | introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to re- |
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| 16 | 16 | | quire updates to the northern border threat analysis |
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| 17 | 17 | | and northern border strategy, and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Northern Border Secu-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | rity Enhancement and Review Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •S 850 IS |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. NORTHERN BORDER THREAT ANALYSIS AND 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | STRATEGY. 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) N |
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| 29 | 29 | | ORTHERNBORDERTHREATANALYSIS.—Sec-3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | tion 3(a) of the Northern Border Security Review Act 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (Public Law 114–267) is amended— 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | striking ‘‘180 days after the date of enactment of 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘September 2, 2025, and 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | every 3 years thereafter’’; 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | lowing: 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ‘‘(2) an assessment of recent changes in the 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | amount and demographics of apprehensions at the 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | Northern Border, including an analysis of apprehen-16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | sion changes at the sector level.’’. 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (b) N |
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| 45 | 45 | | ORTHERNBORDERSTRATEGYUPDATES.—Sec-18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | tion 3 of the Northern Border Security Review Act (Public 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Law 114–267) is amended— 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | section (d); and 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | lowing: 24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(c) N |
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| 53 | 53 | | ORTHERNBORDERSTRATEGYUPDATES.— 25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | The Secretary of Homeland Security shall update the De-26 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 850 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | partment of Homeland Security’s Northern Border strat-1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | egy not later than September 2, 2026, and every 5 years 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | thereafter, and shall incorporate the results of the most 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | recent threat analysis in each such update.’’. 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (c) C |
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| 63 | 63 | | LASSIFIEDBRIEFINGS.—Section 3 of the North-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ern Border Security Review Act, as amended by sub-6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | sections (a) and (b), is further amended by adding at the 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | end the following: 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(e) C |
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| 68 | 68 | | LASSIFIEDBRIEFINGS.—Not later than 30 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | days after the submission of each threat analysis pursuant 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | to subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | shall provide a classified briefing regarding such analysis 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | to the appropriate congressional committees.’’. 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (d) I |
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| 74 | 74 | | MPLEMENTATION OF CERTAINGOVERNMENT 14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | A |
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| 76 | 76 | | CCOUNTABILITY OFFICERECOMMENDATIONS .—Not 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting 17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | through the Executive Assistant Commissioner of Air and 18 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Marine Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protec-19 |
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| 81 | 81 | | tion, shall develop performance measures to assess the ef-20 |
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| 82 | 82 | | fectiveness of Air and Marine Operations at securing the 21 |
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| 83 | 83 | | northern border between ports of entry in the air and mar-22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | itime environments. 23 |
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| 88 | 88 | | SEC. 3. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS. 1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | No additional funds are authorized to be appro-2 |
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| 90 | 90 | | priated for the purpose of carrying out this Act or the 3 |
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| 91 | 91 | | amendments made by this Act. 4 |
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